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Hi, I'm Sessie, and I'm Angela, and this is the Bravo Docket.

All right, welcome back to the Bravo Docket.

So this is the third part in our three part series covering Teresa and Joe.

This is going to be the final one, and do you want to reorient everyone on what happened in parts

one and two? Yeah, so part one we talked about Teresa and Joe's origin story. We even went as far

back to talk about how they met when Teresa was 14. We talked about how they ended up on the show.

We talked about some interesting legal issues that they had before they even got on the show,

and then we talked about how they filed for bankruptcy, and also I read some excerpts from

Teresa's book talking about when she was approached by the Real Housewives producers.

Then in part two, we talked about more details about the bankruptcy. We talked about how the

mistakes they made in their bankruptcy led to the federal indictment, and we explained the

charges there, and then we got all the way up in the timeline to the part where they were

actually indicted. We explained how that worked and what the charges were, and then now we are going

to get to the actual sentencing and the jail time, and then also the divorce and the deportation,

and more listener questions. So much, so much. Yeah, before we dive into that, I thought it would

be interesting to talk about how cases end up in federal court. Teresa and Joe's case is in

federal court, which is a big deal. So federal courts can hear criminal civil and bankruptcy

cases, but not all cases go into federal court. There are three ways that it can end up in federal

court. I believe this applies to civil cases. So first of is if you violate certain laws and

statutes, it becomes automatically federal. I think I mentioned during the tarte for the party

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